I want to upgrade my ePO 3.5.0 server to 3.6.1, but have hit a brick wall. I have 1 Dell server running the frontend ePO s/w and then a seperate server running SQL 2000 SP2. This SQL box also runs other databases.

The problem l face is that l cannot upgrade the SQL server to SP3 as there is one particular d/b that is criticial and l can't get authorisation for the service pack.

Is it possible to bring the database back onto the Dell ePO server as an MSDE d/b and then perform the ePO upgrade?

The problem is the downgrade from SQL to MSDE... if you find an app that exports a DB from MSSQL to MSDE you can give it a try.For sure you can move the DB between MSSQL versions, so it can be a lot easier.